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Wheelmen in the Valley.

A company of some twenty bicycle tour
lists composed of wheelmen from Balti-
more, Washington, Ragerstown, and other
places, is on its way up the Valley. 1t is
due in Harrison3urg Oh Sunday next and
here on Monday.
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DIED.

WITHROW April 10TH at the residence Of nef
husband, William Withrow, ESQ, in Way. ~
boro, Va, Mrs. Mary Withrow. She left tls 70
love OF family and many friends. In the IN
year of her married life she went up to pc hne
land, and in the 55ti OF her Christian 1fe passed
into the blissful presence Of her Christ.
BLESSED are the dead who die in the Lord
ARMENTROUT. In Staunton, May 18th, at ire
residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Liggett. her daug1s
ter, Mrs. Nancy Armentrout formerly OF Rock.
bridge,
WRIGHT.-Near Newport. Augusta county, Nay
9th, Mrs. Henry Wright.
RODGERS.-At the home OF her hu sband, John
Rodgers. Esq, In Staunton, May 9Th. Mrs. Emma
Rodgers
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G. A. GLADKE4,-
Owner and Proprietor of the
GRAND DOUBLE STORE.

~ We have been awarded the agency Of
DR.. Scott's Electric Corsets, which ma We per
formed more wonderful cures than anything
else under the Sun. Life, Health, Elegsnce
and Durability, all are combined "a this ~
cellent article and Gladkes is the only honst
in this city that they can be procured IT.
aur
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Conn erckaI.
SrAUNTON, Ma

STAUNToN. May II, 1857
Flour-E1tra, s3.T5@s ;Superfne $3.15@s32; {;
Family s4O0as; Wheat, S4aS6; Corn, 4S@50 Oats,
3Oa33; Rye, 43a45; Bacon, Sal0: Tea Blackboard;
Tea Green, 50@$l00; Flax seed, 75@-; Plaster
Ground $500 per ton; Lard, 711S@; Butter lS@-:
Eggs 100; Corn meal, 50@- Salt bl.50 Pork.
$3.50; Sugar 6@9c: Molasses 30 @75c; Potatoes, 50
@75 Timothy seed, 81. 25a$250; Wool (washed) zoo
22e; Wool (unwashed) 22c GLOVER Seed s3.0O@$3 so,
Baled Hay s7OO@s9OO Timothy, s900@$l0.59; Clio
yer, s6OO@$s,O0; Rye $1,000. Sweet Potatoes 500
Leather, sole, 20a25; Harness leather, 30a33
Upper leather. 4a55; Seed Potatoes, s0.75asl 90.
We continue last weeks quotations.
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City ~ Offices.

PUSH AND ENTERPRIsE.-We noticed last week
in c. e, Haires' window most creditabIe exhi BIZ
ton by the live and enterprsing house of Lawrence
Lottier, of Richmond Va, manufacturer of the
popular Strawberry Twist tobacco, consisting of
an elegant display Of Elgin watches given for the
return of 2 1000 Strawberry Twist Tags. Their rep
resentative tells us these watches will be shown
all over this territory, to convince their patrons
that they give what they advertise, and we are
as sured the watches rank with his tobac 20, and all
know it is the best chew to be found. Those who
did not see them missed a treat, as passers by
would think Haines' Cigar Store had been practi-
cally made JeWelry Store.
Don't forget to chew Strawberry Twist and save
the Tags. 1900 gets watch may Is
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"A who had made

| "A who had made
| property out of
/ witness for the
urphy, had not
!. own will and had
simply a case in
eealed themselves
l the power Of the
se or intimidate a
ing the marriage
conceived stood in
the conclusion,
81 this was a case
aat q MAGISTRATE
u wealth the OPP
ssed by jury. The
IGelde the guilt or
n but merely to
n Jury where the
10 might be heard
FED before a jury.
A the case on to
Yiount of bail will
now under.
,ye bail in $1,000, |
h security, to ap-
q cpurt adjourned. |
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The firm OF A. A. Grubert & Son, have Just re-
ceived from Philadelphia and New York car
load of the finest assortment of Ranges, Cooking,
Heating and Parlor Stoves ever brought to this
market Purchasers will do to examine their
stock before buying sepl7
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A Novel Entertainments Next Friday
NiRht.&

A Novel Entertainment Next Fflday
Night
In large room on New ssreee' ror Two
or three weeks past ther9 mas Deeh nov
el industry. 1t is an angei iacIory. Along
the walls are pairs of white wings edged
with white feathers such aS Angels wear,
and scores of golden barpS such as angels
perform on. The room y run OF LADIES
busy in making up these ieseial outhts
and on tables are wire. ga S2la t1sis
paste. needles, thread and scissors. Twen-
ty or thirty ladies have been at this for
several weeks. 1t is patriotic work, and
next Friday night, May Goth, when all the
wings appear on lovely girls under the
light at the Opera House, the public will
begin to realize what pretty conceits are
in women IS minds and what charming eff
fects their artistic taste can produce. The
performance is for the benefit of the mon
ument to the Confederate dead, and "Par-
adise and the Peri" from Moore's poem of
Lalla Rookh is to be given in a style of
splendor not approached in Staunton be-
fore. The poem is to be illustrated by
ta6leaMr giv0fat and illuminated with a
splendor of decoration fit to accompany the
gorgeous imagery of the author. All
through the representation, of which Par
ad1se and the Peri is but the central figure,
there will be vocal and instrumental mus
ic by the best amateurs Of the city, and
the Stonewall Band. There will also be a
masquerade chorus il fancy costumes-a
chorus OF angels, and military march by
young girls.
The caste for Paradise and the Peri"
is as follows-The Peri, Miss Jennie Mae
Peck; the angel who guards the gate of
Eden, Miss Mary Grattan; the Patriot
and the Invader, T. NJ. Kinney and Frank
Yates; The Lover and Maiden, Geo. Wal
ters and Miss Birdie McCue; The Man
and the Child, Fitz Elder and Miss Min
ME Mccoy. The Introductory will be
given by Miss Louise Powell.
Taken all together, we question if there
has ever been given in Staunton, an enter
tainment which has had as much to at
tract the popular mind as that to be given
Friday night next. The prices too have
been made popular-the Orchestra Circle
being so cents and the Balcony Is cents.
Reserved seats may be secured without
extra charge at Olivier's, Monday next, at
10 A. NJ.
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prosecution against a
a settlement that put

a settlement CnaC put ~
their reach. The chlew
Commonwealth. Mr.. 4
come into the case Of BIZ
so testified; this wasR
which creditors had coz
behind and were usln
Commonwealth to co3a
debtor, instead Of alta q
settlement which the
their way.
Mr.. Braxton who had
urged upon the court I'D
where it was mete II
should give the Comnnc
portunity to try che acc
court was not asked to
innocence of the accused
send him on to the Graz
evidence ruled out her
and where he could be
The Court will Sci
the Grand Jury. The a
be the same as that he il
Mr.. McComb then 6
with W. Reeves McCon
pear when wanted and I'll
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GoTo KINzLEY & KNOWLES for choice fresh
meats. mar25 1y
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BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, May. 5.-Beef
Cattle.-Prices of Beef Cattle ranged as
follows Best SIS OOas5.25; that generally rated
first quality 81 75as5OO; medium OF good fair
quality So. 6211aS475; ordinary thin Steers, Oxen
and Cows $2.50as3.50. Extreme range of prices
$2O0a$5.25. Most of the sales were from
81 OOas5 rs. Total receipts for the week 1888 head
Total sales 654. OF the receipts III came from
Virginia.
The dealers generally report very slow market
and prices !aal4c lower than last week, with an
improvement In the quality of the offerings over
that OF the very good Cattle offered last Thursday.
Sheep and Lambs-There is slight increase in
the number of the offerings over last week, but
their quality shows falling off. Trade for Sheep
is only fair, and for Lambs Ii is quite dull. We
quote butchers Sheen at 2]4a4hc per ID gross,
and spring Lambs at G5Sa9c per Id gross. Arrivals
this week 1851 head.
~
BALTgN3RE HOG MARKET, May 9.-There Is a
taaiT supply of hogs on the market this week, and
. only moderate demand The quality Of the offer
ings is generally good it was last week, only
one firm reporting a falling off in that respect
Prices are shade lower than last week, from SIC
to TIC per lb net. most of the sales at 7zea79se;
few rough hogs sold under &c. Receipts this week
6952 head.
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Don't forget to get your hair cut at Espenshied's
He gives satisfaction. Call and see him. decl7
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GreenvilIe Affairs.

ACTIVITY IN MINING-OLD MINE RE-
OPENED-sALE-CHUR NEws-PER-
soNAL-DEBATING SOCIETY FREIGHT
ON HAY TO RICHMOND.
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Still attend to it soon." Don't cheat yourself in
that way. Your hair is growing thinner, dryer and
more hfeless every day. Save it and restore its
original color softness and gloss by using Parkers
Hair Balsam while you may. uarl8-lm
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Post Office at Staunton
gusta county, Va, May ID, 1889
LADIES LIST.
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Ito dig uu6uG III Glo Cdoo was Op6u0u
by Mr.. Braxton, who held there was
enough of evidence, without those of his
witnesses who could not be used, to war
rant the Mayor in sending the accused on
to the grand jury that he might have a
trial before a jury.
Maj. Elder took the ground that there
was nc false pretense shown and nothing
pointing to it; nothing that might not
have happened to any other man who
might have taken this note from G. & B.
to secure himself for money due him.
There was nothing whatever in the testi-
mOny that had been heard, to show the
slightest knowledge on the part of the ac-
cused that the note was fraudulent. He
cited the case CT Fay VS.. The Common
wealth, in the Court of Appeals, which he
said was almost precisely similar to this,
and where the court had decided that
false pretense could not be imputed.
MIR. Cochran analysed the evidence to
show that there was nothing in it even
tending towards proof that the accused
knew the Strain note was bogus. And all
the evidence of the character of the &C.
cused was opposed to that theory. 1t had
been shown here that at the time of the
sale of the note he was a man worth from
$4,000 to 500 600; that he stood high in
the community and no man had ever
charged him with dishonest act during
his life which had been spent here; that
his individual credit was unquestloned
and men had testified that they would
have taken bis Individual obligation for
from $4,000 to SIS 5000, and there was
neither motive nor necessity for him to
raise money On bogus paper, on which
he was the endorser, when his own
would have been instantly accepted if Of
fered. The whole charge against him now
made might be summed up in this: that
it was an effort of creditors to use the
power Of the Commonwealth in criminal
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Wilkes and give your individual note for
the whole amount of them2
The counsel for the defense objected
and the court ruled the question out
Mr.. Braxton.-Didn'G you tell A. b.
Lightner shortly after G. & b. left town
that you knew they couldn't hold out.
The defense objected to this question
and the court ruled it out.
Mr.. Braxton protested against this line
of ruling which, he said, would make it
impossible to lay the foundation for i'm
parchment Of the witness. This witness
and can be 1mpeached just as any other
witness can. He has stated in his exami-
nation that he had no reason to suspect
this note was bogus. | want to show that
he bas stated differently to other witness
es who l can introduce, and yet when |
ask the question OF him IN order to lay
the ground by his answer to impeach hiE,
your Honor rules my question as inadmis-
sable.
The court adjourned at o'clock till P.
M. and on re-assembling at that hour, on
motion Of the Commonwealth ATTORNEY.
in the absence of witnesses that he deem
ed important, adjourned again until 4
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. The same
surety &C. M. Cochran, Jr.) being given
for the defendants appearance.
THE PROCEEDINGS TUESDAY.
On Tuesday afternoon the court re-as--
sembIed at O'Clock and proceeded with
the examination.
Jere Murphy, recalled, in answer to a
question from the court stated that he
was induced to loan the money on the
Strain note by McComb telling him that
the signer was all right and that she
would pay it.
Cross eranained.-I did not buy the note
solely on Noes endorsement, though if
he hadn't endorsed it 1 would not ha 70
let him have the money. Abous these
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-04
Castle Garden.

When the immigrants come into the
garden from the ships their names are
taken and if there is any mail for. them
they get it on the spot. Their tickets
are then examined and they are then
shipped off to their various destinations.
Those intending to remain in the city
are permitted to go to the boarding
houses and hotels. None but licensed
hotel runners are allowed to enter the
garden. and none but those whose hotels
are selected and examined by the emil
grant commission appointed by the State.
On each side of the garden is refresh
ment counter Solid food can be OBJ
tanned here at prices regulated by the
emigrant commission, and schedules of
prices are stuck in different parts of the
garden. According to recent testimony
in the investigation, some of these prices
are pretty high The immigrant gets
many privileges at Castle Garden which
he undoubtedly would have to pay more
for if he went out into the city. He can
eat and sleep there after a fashion, and
his average daily expenses for a week
would probably not be more than 90
cents. The functions of Castle Garden
are more those of lodging and eating
house than anything else. The kohl
moor of the hotel clerk is not to be seen
there, and bell-bOys are not numerous,
but the guest are there, and they relish
their coarse food as keenly as they would
If it were cooked by a French chef.
Castle Garden, the immigrants door
way to America, is an interesting place
to visit-Nelo York Letter.
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Advice on Killing Weeds.

The following advice and suggestions
are given in the Agricultural Department
report:
Plants cannot hive indefinitely de-
prived of their leaves. Hence prevent
ing their appearance above the surface
will Kill them sooner or later
Plants have greater need for their
leaves, and can be more easily killed in
the growing season than when partially
dormant
Cultivation in dry time is most in
furious to weeds and beneficial to crops.
Avoid the Introduction of weeds in
manure or litter or from weedy sur
roundings. Some gardeners use no stable
manure on grounds they desire to keep
especially clean, relying on commercial
fertilizers and the ploughing under of
green crops.
After a summer crop has ripened, in
stead Of allowing the land to grow up to
weeds, 1t is often well to sow rye or some
other crop to cover the ground and keep
them down.
Give every part of the farm clean
cultivation every few years, either with
hoed crop, or, if necessary, with a
fallow.
1t is often stated that cutting weeds
while in flower will kill them. This is
only reliable with biennials, and with
them only when done so late that much
of the Seed will grow.
If the ground is kept well occupied
with other crops weeds will give much
less trouble. Keep meadows and road
sides well seeded and plough-land cult
waited, except when shaded by crops.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
YelIows in Peaches


The disease of peaches known as vel
lows is due to parasitic fungus which
infects the whole tree. 1t is not in the
leaves only, but in the stem, and the par
asite seems to enter the tree by the roots
1t has been known to affect a tree
through diseased twigs buried near the
roots, and it spreads through an orchard
from centres where the disease begins.
But it IS not known to attack trees where
the soil is furnished with an abundance
of potash and lime. Where the soil is
we'll supplied naturally with these mate
rails the yellOws is not known, as is the
case in parts of Tennessee and the noun
tain region of the South, where very old
orchards are found and scattered wild
trees of very large size. The remedy is
plain. Before planting a peach orchard
the land should be well prepared by plow-
ing, narrowing and liberal manuring,
with dressing of lime and wood ashes,
and the orchard afterward should be
regularly MANFRED and supplied with
abundant food If this were done the
peach would be a longer lived tree than
it is in the existing orchards, which are
rarely cultivated or manured. -Neao York
Times.
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stone and carbolic acid is a remedy en-
ployed.
Plenty of cornmeal and mill feed is
being used by dairymen in sections
where remunerative prices rule for butter
and cheese.
Prepare trees for planting by cutting
the tops back in proportion to the amount
of injury done to the roots, which IS
generally from one-half to two-thirds of
the entire top. On this pruning all shoots
should be entirely cut away that are not
needed for the formation of perfect
head, and the others cut back one-hah 10
two-thirds of their length.
Hungarian grass proper has black seed
mainly. The millets have yellow seed.
Hungarian grass has less head and more
stalk and leaf, and is less liable to rust,
and hence is a better hay crop and not
SO good a grain or seed crop. In select
ing seed for hay crop buy of a reliable
scotsman, and take that which has the
largest possible proportion of black seed.
The deeper the preparation of the soil
the deeper will the roots penetrate, thus
advancing closer to moisture, as well as
permitting of the growth of large pro-
portion of those rootlets that collect food.
If the soil be shallow and the subsOil
hard, theroots will spread nearer the sur
face, thus rendering them not only more
liable to being winter-killed, but also to
damage from drouth.
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Top-Dressing Grass Land.

0. S. Bliss, a Vermont farmer, says in
the the New York Iribune: 81 believed
in the common theory of fall top-dressing,
but little accidental experience opened
my eyes to the fact that top-dressing at
other seasons is often far more effective.
Between the road and the fence across
the front of my hOuse-lot is a strip of
land 3! by 40 rods, which, at much
labor, [ leveled and set in grass-a pOr-
ton in lawn grasses and the emainder in
mOwings. Across this a class of people
delight in asserting their right to travel
during the muddy season, and it is some
times good deal cut up. One season
when the fall of snow was light it was
travelled nearly all winter, and in the
spring great ugly ruts were cut the whole
length Of it, and the prospect for grass
seemed very poor indeed. When the
road became settled and travel assumed
its normal course, 1 took a spike tooth
harrow and smoOthed it down as we'll as
l could, finishing the job with a prong
hoe. l then gave it light dressing with
manure from the shed-a good quality of
manure-and re-seeded it. A part of a
load of manure left over was also spread,
very lightly, over a part of the plot
nearer the fence.
THE operation was in every way sue
cess, and 1 was bountifully repaid for
the labor and expense. The season
proved dry, and the general grass crop
was much shortened, but where that
little spring dressing was applied it was
full and luxuriant. OF course it was
very small experiment, but it was won
derfully suggestive, and 1 determined to
follow it up. l have not wholly aban-
doned fall or winter dressing, but l have
dressed in spring up to the time when
the grass had got good, large start.
The only difficulty experienced in late
spring dressing is in getting the manure
we'll spread. When it is carefully and
thoroughly spread, so as to leave no
Jumps, the effect has always been magical
in thickening the bottom growth and
improving the quality as well as increas-
ing the quantity of the hay. 1 believe l
have in my barn now more that ton OF
the finest of hay from the application of
four loads of manure after the spring
work was done this year. 1 have never
seen so good results from fall as from
spring dressing, the same quality and as
nearly the same quantity as possible of
manure being applied to adjoining por-
tions of the same field"
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A Girl Stakeholder.

She lives in Maiden; she IS seventeen
years old, or Whereabouts, and she is an
ophiologist-thati is to say, her speciality
is snakes. Very often, IN pleasant sum
mer weather, this young girl, with hands
clad in high buck gloves, and armed with
bottle of chloroform. turks about the
fens and pools and thickets watching for
snakes, girl fair to look upon, sumter
ing, one might imagine, with eye upon
the ground, in maiden meditation, fancy
free. She is in maiden meditation, in
deed, but not fancy free, because her
fancy is bound to snakes, and she is
searching intently for some variety not
yet added to her collection of several
hundred. Presently she stops; with an
eager CLEAN in her eye she crouches
along a step or two, her glove clad right
hand drawn back as if to clutch some
object; she springs forward toward the
ground with a swift motion, and then
stands erect with the body of a snake
writhing about her arm in desperate
throes. She has it by the neck, and
proceeds calmly to thrust its head into
the neck of her bottle of chlOrOform.
Not many days ago this young sci
enlist, after rather desperate contest,
captured IN the fells black snake so
large and powerful that when it wrapped
itself in the mad grasp of it's body about
her arm it strained her cords and muscles
so severely that she was lame for a week.
1t did not prevent her, however, from
sallying forth again, and when she hap
pened to perceive, at the margin of
pool, big water-snake of a variety which
she had not secured for her collection,
she lay in wait for it. AS the snake
pounced upon frog she pounced upon
the snake; but the reptile was in his
element and escaped her. Was she to be
baff1ed in that way? Not at all. She
managed to anchor a frog in some way
upon a stone at the edge of the pool, at
spot where the bank overhung with
bushes Then she stealthily laid herself
flat upon her face under the bushes at
the brink of the water, and there she lay
in ambush for a long time, while the
snake curiously eyed the frog. At last
the snake, with sudden resolution, made
bold to seize the frog; but as he did SO
gloved hand, swifter than his own
sinuous motion, darted from the bank,
and he was prisoner, splashing the
water of the pool in his vain effort to
escape. The girl has one grief-she has
not been able to capture, with her own
hands, a rattlesnake. Boston Transcript.
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The Merry Hunter.

Obi who so happy as the hunter!
The game laws, like himself, are out.
Up with the sun this bonny morning,
How proudly does he strut about!
A belt of shells, fine breech-loader,
A brand-new a la sportsman's suit
He has all these to make him happy,
And money in his purse TO boot.
Now if he hunts all day for nothing,
His credit will be just the same:
His money will do more than he can;
1t yTiu not fail to bag the game.
-Te,cus Sifti12s
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No Opium in Piso's Cure for Cons mption
Cures where other remedies fail sc.